Director, Product Management, ACH-MEA at Mastercard

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Job Title
Director, Product Management, ACH-MEA
ACH Product Director- Southern Africa

Overview

Develop and execute a market strategy for Account to Account Systems across Southern Africa (SAEM). This role will involve product management, strategy creation, business development including new investments, strategic alliances, developing bespoke solutions to drive domestic relevance and managing & deploying existing partnerships and commercializing existing assets to establish MasterCard brand leadership in the payment space.
Reporting to Products ACH MEA, this role will be a member of the MEA regional Products & ACH team.

Role
Develop and execute market strategy aligned with the global Mastercard ACH strategy:

• Grow market share where card networks are more appropriate, and play a leading role in the fast ACH value chain
• Accelerate participation in Fast ACH and establish Mastercard as a credible player
• Participate in Fast ACH Value Chain:
• ACH infrastructure provider –lead in strategic markets with upcoming RFPs
• ACH scheme –participate in cross-border schemes/applications, where domestic scheme unattainable
• ACH application –pursue in strategic markets for P2M and Push solutions
• Identify market opportunities and engage with customers
• Domestic/intra-regional level infrastructure/scheme
• Global XB infrastructure/scheme
• Leverage use of other ecosystems (Mobile) to connect to A2A
• Explore strategic partnerships
• Bank partnerships
• P2M ACH acceptance
• Commercialize and Scale
• Business strategy
• GTM coordination for products
• Sales/product delivery process
• Identifying, developing and executing appropriate partner strategies with processors and switches
• Developing bespoke solutions to develop ecosystem infrastructure build
• Develop region specific Product/sales strategies to help drive sales of ACH systems and associated Value Added services
• Provide business model evaluation and conduct due diligence on opportunities that could require equity investing or other forms of commercial contracting
• Conduct opportunity assessments on new ideas and concepts and provide design specifications for product enhancements to Product Development
• Develop new partner/alliance relationships and maintain and strengthen existing partner/alliance relationships

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